President Donald Trump's week of legal peril has significantly boosted the odds of his impeachment by the House of Representatives, at least as far as the betting markets are concerned.
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Indeed, Trump is now rated more likely than not to be impeached during his first term, according to the latest odds offered by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power. Odds of 4/5, an implied probability of 56 percent, are available on Trump's impeachment before his term ends in January 2021. Conversely, a bet on Trump not to be impeached is currently rated at even money, or 50 percent.
The political threat to Trump is about to increase, too, due to the impending Democratic takeover of the House. Were Democrats to vote in unison come January then they could make Trump just the third president in history to be impeached.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing regarding the campaign finance violations as well as the ongoing special counsel investigation into his campaign's alleged ties to Russia. Last week, he also brushed off any impeachment fears. At times Trump will still claim that he doesn't even know the women that he paid off.
For the first time earlier this month, federal prosecutors directly implicated Trump in federal crimes. In a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen, prosecutors in New York wrote that the president had directed his former longtime personal lawyer to commit two campaign finance violations. Prosecutors later backed up the assertion that the president was behind the payments to silence two women about their claims of affairs with Trump shortly before the 2016 election when Cohen was sentenced in court to 36 months in prison.
The political threat to Trump is about to increase, too, due to the impending Democratic takeover of the House. Were Democrats to vote in unison come January then they could make Trump just the third president in history to be impeached.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing regarding the campaign finance violations as well as the ongoing special counsel investigation into his campaign's alleged ties to Russia. Last week, he also brushed off any impeachment fears. At times Trump will still claim that he doesn't even know the women that he paid off.
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it will never happen, why doesn't trump use his billions to pay for the wall ??